[phenixbb] refinement

Pei-Chun Lin pclin at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 10 07:38:58 PST 2009


Hi, 

When talking about "put much more weight on geometry
restraints to avoid overfitting", what wxc and wxu value will you suggest to use for a 4A structure?
I am working on a 3.5A structure and have no experience of adjusting weight value before. Any suggestion will be very helpful to me.


PC


Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 20:12:29 -0800
From: PAfonine at lbl.gov
To: phenixbb at phenix-online.org
Subject: Re: [phenixbb] refinement






  


Hi,



although I've seen cases like yours when SA in Cartesian space did
miracles, in many of cases modeling at 4A resolution is a tough
problem. 



Since clearly SA didn't work out (given R/Rfree ~ 37/50% and the
starting 48/50), I would try splitting your model into rigid domains
and refine each as a rigid body. Plus, I would refine one isotropic B
per residue or per domain (try both). This is a few minutes to try so
why don't you do so.

Also, I would still combine it (rigid body and B-factor refinement)
with Cartesian SA, but I would put much more weight on geometry
restraints to avoid overfitting.



As you probably aware of, in phenix.refine you can run combined
refinement jobs, for example, consisting of SA, rigid body, B-factor
refinement and so on. So I would recommend playing with the above
suggestions to see if it works. Plus, don't forget looking at the
maps - may be you manage to fit something manually.



By the way, which R-factors you get if you run:



phenix.model_vs_data data.mtz model.pdb



(phenix.model_vs_data will account for twinning (if any) using Xtriage
automatically) ?



Write us if you have questions.



Good luck,

Pavel.







On 12/8/09 7:02 PM, r n wrote:

  
  
  Thanks a
lot. I did
download the new -dev249 and did cartesian SA, R goes down to 37 but
R-free (50) did not. 

Any suggestions?

  

  

  
  

  
  From:
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve <rwgk at cci.lbl.gov>

  To:
phenixbb at phenix-online.org

  Sent: Tue, December 8,
2009 3:34:09 PM

  Subject: Re:
[phenixbb] refinement

  

> I do have very low resolution data (around 4 ang), what are

> the efficient way of doing refinement, either rigid body alone or

> rigidbody and tls or individual with group_adp. I did both, but not

> much significant changes in Rfree stays around 48/50%.

  

You could also try Cartesian or torsion-angle simulated annealing.

I'd try both. In my experience Cartesian SA often works better even

at low resolution.

If you get errors running torsion-angle annealing, please try

the latest nightly build (dev-249) since I've fixed several

problems since the 1.5-2 release.

  

> Also I do have other questions

>    

> 1. While doing rigid body refinement, phenix complaint about the

> special position and could not perform rigid body refinement,

> whereas individual site refinement is working fine. I do have to

> delete the atom in special position for rigid body refinement?

  

You could use

  sites.rigid_body = ...

to select the bodies you want to refine. The rest (including your

atom on the special position) will not move.

  

Ralf

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